Wide-field structured illumination microscopy for fluorescence and pump-probe imaging
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Kim, Yang-Hyo.![Thumbnail](/bitstream/handle/1721.1/121846/1102058096-MIT.pdf.jpg?sequence=4&isAllowed=y)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering.
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Peter T. C. So.
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The optical resolution of microscopy is limited by the wave-like characteristic of the light. There are many recent advances in overcoming this diffraction limited resolution, but mostly focused on fluorescent imaging. Furthermore, there are few non-fluorescence wide-field super-resolution techniques that can fully utilize the applicable laser power to optimize imaging speed. Structured illumination microscopy is a super-resolution method that relies on patterned excitation. This thesis has presented novel applications of structured illumination microscopy to surface plasmon resonance fluorescence and pump-probe scattering imaging. First, structured illumination microscopy was introduced to surface plasmon resonance fluorescence imaging for high signal-to-noise and high resolution. Secondly, a theoretical framework for three-dimensional wide-field pump-probe structured illumination microscopy has been developed to increase the lateral resolution and enable depth sectioning. Further, structured illumination wide-field photothermal digital phase microscopy is proposed as a high throughput, high sensitivity super-resolution imaging tool to diagnose ovarian cancer. Finally, I have derived the exact analytical solution to the heat conduction problem in which a sphere absorbs temporally modulated laser beam for photothermal microscopy. The proposed method also has a great potential to be applied to other pump-probe modalities such as transient absorption and stimulated Raman scattering.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2019 Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references.
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2019Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical EngineeringPublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Mechanical Engineering.